/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6571926
it's extremely stiff and doesn't show anything like what a human would look like doing that action. this is why vilppu stresses gesture so much for the industry he works in most of the time, animation. it's crucial for animators (or at least it was in old disney era) to understand how the body looks in motion or they will produce work that is retarded and bad.

i'm not going to post my work because it wouldn't be a fair comparison. i actually study the human form daily for multiple hours and understand what movement is, and i do warmups from reality before doing figures from imagination. you seem to think teachers like vilppu use gesture studies as a way to trick beginners into never drawing rendered humans, which makes zero sense at all and follows no logic. it's not always possible to do a careful study of a scene with plumb lines like your friend, which is why gesture is so important. pic related.

if you knew anything about art history, you'd know old masters didn't have some insane photographic memory of every single muscle origin and insertion, bones, which they then somehow magically trim down to a "shorthand" thumbnail sketch. that makes absolutely no sense and is completely backwards. if they understood exactly what they wanted to draw in perfect detail, they wouldn't need a thumbnail at all. they started with rapid sketches, typically executed from imagination, to capture the basic composition, including the movement. that's what a gesture drawing IS. they then prepared wax figures (maquettes) with lighting to solidify the composition and begin underpainting. later they would use human models to do the final rendered scene with all details. they always went from simple to complex, with the gesture/thumbnail as the foundation for later more finished work. the point of gesture studies is to allow you to rapidly (15-30 seconds) indicate the human form, without it ending up completely stiff like your 10 minute painstaking line drawing.